From Agrigold's Dairy Diary - Badam Payasam

Ingredients:

Badam/almonds - 1/2 cup

AgriGold Standardised milk - 2 cups

Sugar - 3 tblsp

Cardamoms - 5 crushed

Saffron - a pinch soaked in little lukewarm milk

Method:

• Boil half a litre of water in a saucepan
• Add the almonds when the water is boiling and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from the flame, drain and      keep aside
• Remove skin of the almonds and grind them to a fine paste
• Boil milk in a thick bottomed pan; when boiling, add the almond paste to it along with the sugar and stir continuously for about 5 minutes over a low flame
• Remove from flame. Now add the saffron and the crushed cardamoms

You may serve it hot or cold.
(If you are serving it chilled, remember to add a bit more sugar than when you want to serve it hot)